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Newsletter: 9th May 2025

Posted on May 9, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Year 6 SATS Next week is national assessment week for Year 6, who will be sitting their SATS tests on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. These are really important measures, both in terms fo the effectiveness of each school but, more importantly, provide the statutory baseline from which progress through the children’s secondary school career […]

Posted on May 2, 2025 | By Mr Cole

London Residential After months of anticipation, next Tuesday Year 5 depart for their three day trip to the capital! The children will be enjoying a wide range of experiences in London from a West End show to a tour of the Houses of Parliament and, of course, a day at Legoland. Parents of Y5 children, […]

Posted on April 25, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Colour Run Returns! FOWS and FOPS are going forces again this year to bring you and even bigger and better colour run! Hopefully you would have received your sponsorship form before the Easter break. This is 1 per household, your children can work together to try and reach target. The cost for non sponsored children […]

Posted on April 4, 2025 | By Mr Cole

We Slept With The Sharks! Well done to our amazing Year 3 who have enjoyed a fantastic residential in Plymouth this week. For many this was the first time away from home and staff have been delighted with hopw well everyone coped with the whole experience. I was lucky enough to join them for the […]

Posted on March 28, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Holiday Activities Food (HAF) programme Devon County Council have changed the way they manage the HAF scheme for parents with children in receipt of free school meals. This means that they will no longer need to issue individual codes to families – anyone can go online, check their personal eligibility and if eligible, can book […]

Posted on March 21, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Wrap-Around Provision As You know, the government has committed to each school offering before-school and after-school childcare (“wrap around care”) available by 2026 from at least 8am to 5:30pm. As part of a pilot, we are able to access funding through Devon County Council to put some provision in place in order to see what […]

Posted on March 14, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Pixies Holt Residential Next week sees the Year 4 Pixies Holt residential taking place… and the weather looks amazing! Chidlren going on the resiential need to arrive at Woolsery Primary School on Monday 17th March by 9am with a refillable drinks bottle and packed lunch in a plastic container in their day pack. Any medication […]

Posted on March 7, 2025 | By Mr Cole

PE & Sport Roundup It’s been another busy week for physical education this week across the Partnership… Well done to all children who entered the Virtual Gymnastics county competition, there were well over 200 entries this year from across the whole of Devon. The judges said the performances were all of such a high standard making […]

Posted on February 28, 2025 | By Mr Cole

World Book Day Next week is World Book Day, when we celebrate all things about reading and the magic of books. Teachers will be running additional book-themed activities on the day and each school will be marking this annual event as follows. Please note that due to Y5/6 swimming, Buckland Brewer School will be celebrating […]

Posted on February 14, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Goodbye, Mrs Kersey! Today is Mrs Kersey’s last day with Village Schools Partnership as she takes on an exciting new role with Devon County Council outside of the education sector. Mrs Kersey has been with our schools since September 2015 when she moved from St George’s, Northam to become our English Lead at Woolsery Primary […]

Posted on February 7, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Head of Learning – Buckland Brewer School With Mrs Kersey moving on to a new role within Devon County Council at the end of next week, I am really pleased to be able to tell you that we have appointed Mr Jack Seymour as the new Head of Learning at Buckland Brewer Primary School. Mr […]

Posted on January 31, 2025 | By Mr Cole

National Marine Aquarium Residential Just a reminder that today is the cut-off for bookings and deposit payments for the Y3 overnight stay at the National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth. We won’t be able to add children to the residential after today because our deposit payments will now be made with the various operators who are delivering […]

Posted on January 24, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Sporting Success! This week, the Year 6 Village Schools Partnership boys team had two matches and two great results! On Monday, Kingsley School came to Woolsery for a very close contest which we won 1-0 and on Tuesday we travelled to St Mary’s, Bideford and in a very exciting game were victorious once more winning […]

Posted on January 17, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Music Lessons Just a reminder that we offer small-group and individual music lessons in school time in all our schools. Our Peripatetic teachers offer a wide range of instruments, from piano and keyboard to cornet and trumpet (Drumming will return too after Laura’s maternity leave!) If you would like to know more about buying some […]

Posted on January 10, 2025 | By Mr Cole

Welcome Back It’s been lovely to see the children back in class this week and hear about their Christmas break. I hope you all have a great time together! If this is your first term at Village Schools Partnership, welcome! – we are very pleased to welcome you to our schools. We have a busy […]

Posted on December 13, 2024 | By Mr Cole

Wow, Wow and Wow! This has been a fantastic week for our children to shine across the Partnership. In all three schools, the children’s performances have been truly inspiring and reflect hours and hours of painstaking work to learn lines, moves and songs… and bring all of that together into a fabulous performance, of which […]

Posted on December 6, 2024 | By Mr Cole

School Admissions Consultations Update Since last week’s article about the consultations for changing the catchment and travel arrangments for Bideford College and Atlantic Academy, Devon Admissions Tema have contacted us to reassure everyone that contrary to the impression given in the consultation materials, as Great Torrington School are not asking to change their admission arrangements, […]

Posted on November 28, 2024 | By Mr Cole

School Admissions Consultations Devon County Council and Athena Learning Trust are consulting with parents about an important change affecting parents living in the catchment areas of Woolsery and Parkham primary schools (whether they attend those schools or not). The consultation is about a proposed change to secondary feeder schools for Hartland, Woolsery and Parkham primary […]

Posted on November 22, 2024 | By Mr Cole

Snow Day! Thank you to everyone for your support yesterday when the snow began to fall! We were very happy to be able to keep our schools running almost normally, albeit with changes to school transport arrangements which are made beyond school’s control. The children managed the snow really well and despite the obvious excitement, […]

Posted on November 15, 2024 | By Mr Cole

Nut Allergies in Schools We have a couple of children across our three schools who have severe nut alleries. This means that if they come into contact with certain types of nuts, they may have an anaphylactic reaction which can be very serious. Although current guidance is not to designate our schools to be “nut […]

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